《世界短篇小说教程》力求凸显其独特之处。主要表现在选材、内容及体例三个方面。在选材方面，所选作品除来自英、美作家外，还精选了来自法、俄等国共17位作家的作品。

PART ONE INTRODUCTION TO SHORT FICTION

PART TWO ELEMENTS OF FICTION

Setting

Conflict

Character

Theme

PART THREE ART OF FICTION

Point of View

The First Person

The Second Person

The Third Person

Style

Plot

Figurative Devices

Symbolism

Irony

PART FOUR BEST SHORT STORIES

Washington Irving (1783-1859)

Rip Van Winkle

Nathaniel Hawthorn ( 1804-- 1864)

The Young Goodman Brown

Mark Twain (1835--1910)

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Guy de Maupassant (1850--1893)

The Diamond Necklace

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

The Lady With the Dog

O. Henry (1867--1910)

The Gift of the Magi

Sherwood Anderson (1876-- 1941)

Death in the Woods

James Joyce (1882-1941)

Araby

Virginia Woolf (1882-- 1941)

Kew Gardens

D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)

The Rocking Horse Winner

William Faulkner ( 1897-- 1962)

A Rose for Emily

Earnest Hemingway ( 1899 -- 1961 )

A Clean, Well-lighted Place

John Steinbeck (1902--1968)

The Chrysanthemums

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-- 1991)

Gimpel the Fool

John Cheerer (1912-1982)

The Swimmer

Flannery O'Connor (1925-- 1964)

Revelation

John Updike (1932- )

A&P

References